[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S1940]
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SA 859. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him
to the concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the
congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year
2016 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal
years 2017 through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:
SEC. ___. SPENDING-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND RELATING TO
CLARIFYING THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM ``WATERS
OF THE UNITED STATES''.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33
U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), which may clarify that the term
``navigable waters'' means waters of the United States,
including the territorial seas that are navigable-in-fact or
permanent, or continuously flowing bodies of water that form
geographical features commonly known as streams, oceans,
rivers, and lakes that are connected to waters that are
navigable-in-fact by the amounts provided in such legislation
for those purposes, provided that such legislation would not
raise new revenue and would not increase the deficit over the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2020 and the
period of the total of fiscal years 2016 through 2025.
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